Reducere. National Book AwardsBig men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble.A decade ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and establish...
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Reducere. Winner of the National Book Award"An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness. A book of stunning insights ...
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Reducere. A Major Study of One of the Twentieth Century's Darkest PeriodsUntil now there has been no up-to-date, one-volume, international history of Nazi Ge...
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Reducere. From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in...
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Reducere. DescriptionOrdinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose ...
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Reducere. A Shrinking Disease Due to Chronic Sexual StarvationWhat is Cancer? Traditionally, medical science has thought of it as an invasive tumor arising s...
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Reducere. A classic since its first edition in 1966, Modern American Usage has been called a book that "every literate American ought to read." Now fully rev...
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Reducere. In this Norwegian saga of restlessness, Hamsun presents young Edevart, a headstrong boy ill at ease with books, but fiercely self-determined and ea...
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Reducere. Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In ...
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Reducere. The Gateless Barrier is generally acknowledged to be the fundamental koan collection in the literature of Zen. Gathered together by Wu-men (Mumon),...
Reducere. The Conquest of Morocco tells the story of France's last great colonial adventure. At the turn of the twentieth century, Morocco was a nation yet t...
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Reducere. Bathed in the warm clarity of the summer sun in Provence, Marcel Pagnol's childhood memories celebrate a time of rare beauty and delight.Called by ...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe first guide of its kind, covering all stages of the adoption processAdopting on Your Own addresses the questions and concerns of pro...
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Reducere. This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Editor Michael Hofmann has assembled brilliant translations of the majo...
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Reducere. Hail, humble Helpstone ... Where dawning genius never met the day, Where useless ignorance slumbers life awayUnknown nor heeded, where low genius t...
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Reducere. In recent years, the justices of the Supreme Court have ruled definitively on such issues as abortion, school prayer, and military tribunals in the...
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Reducere. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave mus...
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Reducere. This volume brings together all of Berryman's poetry, except for his epic The Dream Songs, ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to tho...
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Reducere. Described by Anne Tyler as "the undisputed master of the short story form, " Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts...
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Reducere. Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is one of the foremost spiritual thinkers of the twentieth century. Though he lived a mostly solitary existence as a Trap...
Reducere. In essays ranging from his earliest cooking lessons in a cold-water walk-up apartment on New York's Lower East Side to opinions both admiring and a...
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Reducere. Are there "natural laws" that govern the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves, just as there are physical laws that govern the motio...
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Reducere. In The Conquest of the Sahara, Douglas Porch tells the story of France's struggle to explore and dominate the great African desert at the turn of t...
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Reducere. An insightful collection of original interviews with the innovative director of Secrets & LiesA five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner and the on...
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Reducere. In Being a Character, Christopher Bollas argued that Freud's vision of the dream process is a model for all unconscious mental experience. In Crack...
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Reducere. For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the imagination of the West. The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous liberation into an o...
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Reducere. Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to e...
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Reducere. An unprecedented eyewitness account of the New York School, as seen between the lines of O'Hara's poetryJoe LeSueur lived with Frank O'Hara from 19...
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Reducere. Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting the...
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Reducere. In this book, Wilhelm Reich summarizes the criticism of the prevailing sexual conditions and conflicts as it resulted from his sex-economic medical...
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Reducere. Oregon Book AwardsAs an Assistant United States Attorney, John Kroger pursued high-profile cases against mafia killers, drug kingpins, and Enron ex...
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Reducere. With 200, 000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps (1902-73), ...
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Reducere. This wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education i...
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Reducere. In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her sto...
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Reducere. Combining compelling narrative and grand historical sweep, Forgotten Allies offers a vivid account of the Oneida Indians, forgotten heroes of the A...
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Reducere. ..". imaginatively written and meticulously researched biography." --Elizabeth Sherman, The Boston Sunday GlobeHer rallying cry was famous: "Pray f...
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Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating analysis of the first famous American to erase the boundary between real history and entertainmentCanada, and Europe. Crow...
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Reducere. In My Mother's House and Sido, Colette plays fictional variations on the themes of childhood, family, and, above all, her mother. Vividly alive, fo...
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Reducere. For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It so...
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Reducere. This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Dur...
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Reducere. In this profound and moving work, the scientist Wilhelm Reich explores the meaning of Christ's life and reveals the hidden, universal scourge that ...
Reducere. Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes' column in the Chicago Defender. Simple may have ...
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Reducere. When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam, " everyone understood. The Vietnam War has become the touchstone for U.S. mil...
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Reducere. A POWERFUL STORY OF SEXUAL AWAKENING DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR FROM THE NOTED MEMORIST AND CRITIC In My Queer War, James Lord tells the story of ...
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Reducere. Ever since 9/11, fears about the shari'a--Islamic law--have been spreading. A word that originally conveyed nothing more sinister than a direct pat...
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Reducere. How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago.In Barbarian Virtues, Matthew Frye Jacobson offers a keenly argue...
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Reducere. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryIn this study of the fateful encounters between Europe and Asia on the shores of a legendary ...
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Reducere. Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's ...
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Reducere. America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to...
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Reducere. A vivid portrayal of the great Italian philosopher - now in paperbackIn Niccol 's Smile, Maurizio Viroli brings to life the fascinating writer who ...
Reducere. The life of Georg Buchner was short, intense, and tragic--and extremely significant for the development of modern drama. His three plays, Danton's ...
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Reducere. From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some ninety poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon ma...
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Reducere. An exciting collection of original interviews with the infamously outspoken director of Short Cuts. From Nashville to The Player to Gosford Park, R...
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Reducere. Spanning a wide geographical range, this collection features many of the now prominent first generation of African writers and draws attention to a...
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Reducere. Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in The Nation, called "remarkable, morally s...
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Reducere. Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Sy...
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Reducere. For a generation of teenage girls, Sassy magazine was nothing short of revolutionary--so much so that its audience, which stretched from tweens to ...
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Reducere. Getting Away with It is a hilarious, insightful conversation between two visionary directors, Steven Soderbergh and Richard Lester, about the manif...
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Reducere. A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man's formative years in a country still struggling with its pastAs a Jew in postwar Germany, Yascha...
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Reducere. If you have ever wondered why SUVs replaced minivans, how one rap song turned the cognac industry upside down, or what gives Levi's jeans their ico...
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Reducere. House of Mist stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism. Of this story of a young...
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